The Night Agent

A Novel

By: Matthew Quirk

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

NOW ON NETFLIX! Starring Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan

“Matthew Quirk moves into David Baldacci and John Grisham territory with The Night Agent, a paranoid, pulse-pounding thriller that could not be more prescient. If you’re wondering where the best of the next generation of suspense talent is headed, look no further.” — Joseph Finder

To find a Russian mole in the White House, an FBI agent must question everything. . . and trust no one.

No one is more surprised than FBI Agent Peter Sutherland when he’s tapped to work in the White House Situation Room. When Peter was a boy, his father was suspected of selling secrets to the Russians—a breach that cost him his career, his reputation, and eventually his life. Now Peter’s job is monitoring an emergency line for a call that has not—and might never—come.

Until tonight.

At 1:05 A.M. the phone rings. A terrified young woman named Rose tells Peter that two people have just been murdered and that the killer might still be in the house with her. One of the victims gave her this phone number with urgent instructions: “Tell them OSPREY was right. It’s happening...”

The call thrusts Peter into the heart of a conspiracy years in the making, involving a Russian mole at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Anyone in the White House could be the traitor. Anyone could be corrupted. To save the nation, Peter must take the rules into his own hands, question everything, and trust no one.

The Night Agent marks the return of the classic conspiracy thriller, a Three Days of the Condor for today’s chaotic world. With incredible twists and heart-stopping action, this electrifying novel pulls back the curtain on Washington power and confirms Matthew Quirk as a new master of suspense.

This one slowly grew on me as the story

This one slowly grew on me as the story developed. I'm interested in trying another book from Matthew Quirk and hope he has the right kind of narrator to make it work.

Didn’t disappoint but could have been better

I listened to the book after I watched the show on Netflix and the story had the same plot but the story was told differently.The story was good but could have been better. There were parts off the story that could have been explained better and seemed rushed. The person who narrated the story wasn’t terrible but wasn’t good either. If you can get past the narrator it’s worth a shot.

Good Read

This was a great read by a new to me author. I started watching the TV series on Netflix and was intrigued that it was based on a novel.

Better than Netflex movie

Throughly enjoyable fiction. Story kept me wanting more. Good twists and turns. Book is good standalone, but has space to be basis for series.

Relevance to today’s time and bureaucracy situation

Those that have viewed the Netflix version of NIGHT AGENT (an excellent thriller) ,as is typical with screen adaptations need have no fear of a spoiler.
This book stands by itself…. An excellent thriller read. While written before our recent election it (I hope) part if it illustrates the danger of an all powerful never elected bureaucracy.
Still it is an excellent page turner well worth a credit.